Author Archives: Tanya Gray

Hope you are one of the lucky ones who gets to join Justin Karkow and THE HALL DAVIDSON for the Day of Discovery on March 4, 2009 in Manhattan, KS. Check out the revised schedule for the day. Come ready to meet some great people, learn some great ways to integrate digital media into your

Kansas Discovery Educators are in for a treat when Justin Karkow and Hall Davidson host a Day of Discovery on March 4, 2009 at the KSU Alumni Center. The day will provide Kansas educators and welcomed guests an exciting and enriching day of professional development focused on creative ways to use digital media in the

The Kansas Leadership Team would like to welcome Jim Clark from Wichita to the team. Jim has been a leader in the Wichita area, getting many educators involved in Discovery Education Streaming. Jim hosted an event on Oct 18 in Wichita attended by 50 educators. The presentations from the day are available here: http://technology.usd259.org/resources/unitedstreaming/index.htm. Please

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Woo Hoo #1! Hall Davidson will be coming to Kansas to be the Keynote speaker at the March MACE Conference in Manhattan on March 5th, 2009. Mark your calendars for this conference and be sure to sign up early as this conference usually reaches maximum attendance. Woo Hoo #2! Justin Karkow, our regional account manager,

DEN Spring Training is back! This year the DEN coaches are scouting talent for the All-STAR team as well as looking for some new prospects to join the DEN squad. You have a couple ways to impress the coaches during DEN Spring Training and earn some DEN gear. Renegotiate Your Contract Every year STAR Discovery

How do you keep track of all the resources you download from the web? The videos, the photos, the clip art, pdfs, etc. Maybe you start a word processing document and put the citation there. But that really takes time and can easily get separated from the resource. Here’s a very simple way. Let’s use

Reading Educational blogs can help us to keep current on education issues. Following are a few blogs that I have found helpful when trying to infuse 21st Century Skills into my classes. 2¢ Worth – Teaching & Learning in the new information landscape: David Warlick Weblogg-ed – Learning with the Read/write Web: Will Richardson Expanding

Garfield Upper Elementary announced that it has received a $2,000 Teach Award from Best Buy Co., Inc. for integrating interactive technology into its curriculum. Class members of Dan Brown’s Fifth Grade used their video production skills to produce a film that was entered into a national competition. Students wrote the script, shot the video, edited